Bion's Vertices: On Truth and Lies is divided into three parts which investigate the truth/lie domain, emotional change and growth, and creativity in relation to truth and lies, and show its relevance in clinical practice. The wide-ranging discussions include chapters on aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought, knowledge, representation, misunderstandings, chaos, perversions, propaganda, the analyst's mind, the protective function of lying, and racialisation in relational context.
This is a must-read book for all those with an interest in Bion and the application of his theory to contemporary thought and practice.
AUTHOR: Dr Tomasz Fortuna trained as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for fifteen years, and currently he works at the Portman Clinic with adults, children, and adolescents and is in private psychoanalytic practice. He teaches and supervises in the UK and abroad. His professional interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts, the understanding of severe emotional disturbance, and criminal behaviour. He has published several articles and chapters, and co-authored the book Melanie Klein: The Basics. He was a guest editor of Empedocles, European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.
Edited by:
Tomasz Fortuna
Imprint: Phoenix Publishing House
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781800132115
ISBN 10: 1800132115
Series: Contemporary Bion
Pages: 392
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
Contents Preface to the book series - Contemporary Bion Tomasz Fortuna Preface to first edition Paulo Cesar Sandler Introduction Tomasz Fortuna I. Enquiry into the truth/lie domain CHAPTER ONE The forms of things unknown: aesthetic processes in poetry and psychoanalytic thought Margot Waddell CHAPTER TWO Knowledge and its pretenders: Bion’s contribution to knowledge and thought David Bell CHAPTER THREE The psychoanalyst’s toolbox: an apprentice in the Bion’s and Meltzer’s ateliers Carlos Tabbia CHAPTER FOUR Representation and truth R. D. Hinshelwood CHAPTER FIVE Bion’s two principles of mental functioning Robert Caper II. Change, growth, creativity and their opposites CHAPTER SIX Chaos: destruction or creation? Ron Britton CHAPTER SEVEN Catastrophic Change: container – contained ♀♂, the shape of what we experience … and beyond Denis Flynn CHAPTER EIGHT Bion: Lies and Perversion of Truth Dimitris-James Jackson CHAPTER NINE Reaching the ineffable Tomasz Fortuna CHAPTER TEN Thinking about truth, lies and propaganda Antonia Grimalt III. Clinical context/dialogue CHAPTER ELEVEN “Truth shall spring out of the earth…”: The analyst as gatherer of sense impressions Avner Bergstein CHAPTER TWELVE What might be in so close that as psychoanalysts we miss it? Nicola Abel-Hirsch CHAPTER THIRTEEN The analyst’s state of mind and growth in the psychoanalytic process Alberto Hahn CHAPTER FOURTEEN A story that could never be told Monica Horovitz CHAPTER FIFTEEN Truth and lies: perversion of truth and the disruption of passion Judy Eekhoff CHAPTER SIXTEEN A certain praise for lying Roosevelt Cassorla Index
Dr Tomasz Fortuna trained as a psychoanalyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the Hanna Segal Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has worked as a psychiatrist in the NHS for fifteen years, and currently he works at the Portman Clinic with adults, children, and adolescents and is in private psychoanalytic practice. He teaches and supervises in the UK and abroad. His professional interests include the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts, the understanding of severe emotional disturbance, and criminal behaviour. He has published several articles and chapters, and co-authored the book Melanie Klein: The Basics. He was a guest editor of Empedocles, European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.
